Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

Post by skydhash » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 2:28 PM UTC

joquarky wrote: post #455

abustamam wrote: post #345

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When I was pretty early in my career, I inherited a legacy project from the CTO who didn't want to maintain it anymore. We decided as a team that I'd just recreate the project with a modern tool chain. A few weeks later, the CTO looked at my work and asked why it was missing xyz features from his legacy project, saying that if I'm gonna take a project and rewrite it, it better be at least as good as the old project.…

I changed my thoughts on rewriting after reading this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... PS: I just realized this article is older than some of the people here.

Post by linsomniac » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 2:41 PM UTC

Post by 1718627440 » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 2:49 PM UTC

keane wrote: post #184

Possibly relevant comment from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893693 >AirDrop also shares your full name (seemingly the one associated with your Apple ID, not what you have set for yourself in your contacts), both by displaying it in the sharing interface on the involved devices and by attaching it as an extended attribute to uploaded files. >So if you AirDrop some files to your computer and…

Post by lloeki » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 2:54 PM UTC

1718627440 wrote: post #466

lloeki wrote: post #365

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> getting my wife not to click on a link in a random email Hot take: MUAs should simply not make links clickable/copyable on render, or even strip any URI away completely.

Just tell your MUA to only display the plaintext version. You should do that anyways.

Post by 1718627440 » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 3:02 PM UTC

SchemaLoad wrote: post #336

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Isn't that pretty much just Windows? That basically never occurs on Linux and it's not common on macOS, either. All the garbage I have on my work computer (a Mac) in ~/Documents is stuff that OneDrive synced over from when I used to have a Windows computer there. (If I could turn the OneDrive feature that takes over ~/Documents and ~/Downloads, I would.)

Linux software is notorious for spewing crap all over the user's home directory. Delete everything inside your /home/name and see how well the system still works. On iOS/iPadOS nothing happens other than not having the documents you saved in there. I'm not sure there even is a good place where programs can store their internal system files without requiring root other than mixed in with the user Home.